"Sajjan Kumar has been awarded life imprisonment. I thank Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for constituting the SIT and reopening the case. These cases were closed for 35 years, and people like Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler, and Kamal Nath continued to roam freely as C
Delhi Court on Tuesday awarded life sentence to the accused Sajjan Kumar in a case related to killing the father-son duo in the Saraswati Vihar area during the 1984 Anti Sikh riots.
Ahead of the trial court's pronouncement of the sentence for Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, members of the Sikh community led by Sikh leader Gurlad Singh organized a protest in front of the court on Tuesday.
Sajjan Kumar was convicted for his involvement in the brutal killings of a father-son duo, Jaswant Singh and Tarundeep Singh, in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar area on November 1, 1984.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Union and the Delhi government to file Statutory Leave Petitions (SLPs) in connection with six cases in which various accused persons of the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots had been granted acquittals.
"We are grateful to the court, the public prosecutor Manish Rawat and the IO Jagdish Kumar who worked very hard on this... On the 18th of February, the court will pronounce the sentence..." Advocate Phoolka told reporters.
Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva on Wednesday took a dig at the Nehru-Gandhi family, alleging that they had nurtured and promoted those accused in the 1984 riots after Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi convicted former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that appeals challenging the acquittals of accused persons in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots cases need to be filed seriously by prosecution agencies and not just for the sake of it.
A Special CBI court on Friday summoned a Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) officer who analysed voice sample of congress leader Jagdish Tytler. He has been summoned to record his statement as a prosecution witness for the CBI.